Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 15, 1865 |
(-39.4) - 16.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-39.4) - 33.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-36.4) - 22.0 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-31.5) - 44.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-28.5) - 42.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-15.5) - 75.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-14.3) - 51.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-9.9) - 68.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-4.5) - 61.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-3.6) - 80.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1845 - Mar 4, 1849 |
(-3.3) - 0.7 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-1.3) - 83.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-1.3) - 74.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
Mar 1, 1848 - Sep 30, 1849 |
(-0.3) - 1.2 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
Mar 31, 1848 - Apr 3, 1849 |
(-0.2) - 0.8 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
Dec 1, 1848 |
0.4 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
Mar 4, 1849 - Jul 9, 1850 |
0.7 - 2.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
1849 |
1.0 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
2.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
Jul 9, 1850 - Mar 4, 1853 |
2.0 - 4.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
3.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
3.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
1851 |
3.0 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
4.4 - 22.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
Mar 4, 1853 - Mar 4, 1857 |
4.7 - 8.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
5.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
7.8 - 91.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1857 - Mar 4, 1861 |
8.7 - 12.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
1859 |
11.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
Mar 4, 1861 - Apr 15, 1865 |
12.7 - 16.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
Mar 17, 1861 |
12.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
13.2 - 93.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
15.1 - 98.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
15.3 - 88.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
16.8 - 20.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
17.9 - 18.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 |
18.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
20.0 - 30.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
20.7 - 28.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
21.2 - 36.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
21.8 - 75.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
22.0 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
22.1 - 22.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
22.6 - 39.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 |
23.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
26.4 - 116.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
27.5 - 118.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
28.7 - 32.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
30.0 - 33.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
30.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 |
30.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
30.7 - 106.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
31.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 |
31.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
31.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
32.5 - 32.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
32.7 - 33.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
33.1 - 106.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
33.2 - 36.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
34.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
34.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
35.6 - 115.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
36.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
36.4 - 36.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
36.7 - 40.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
38.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
1886 |
38.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 |
38.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
39.0 - 41.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
39.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
39.7 - 40.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
40.0 - 70.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
40.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
40.7 - 44.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
40.8 - 96.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
42.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
42.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
42.3 - 120.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
44.7 - 48.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 - 1897 |
48.0 - 49.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1896 |
48.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
48.7 - 53.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
51.3 - 53.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 |
52.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
53.2 - 60.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 |
53.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
53.5 - 118.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 |
55.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 |
55.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
56.0 - 60.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
57.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
59.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
60.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
60.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
60.7 - 64.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
61.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
62.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
62.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
63.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
64.7 - 72.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
66.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
66.0 - 70.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
66.1 - 70.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
66.2 - 67.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
66.3 - 66.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
67.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
68.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
68.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
69.0 - 115.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
69.0 - 75.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
69.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
70.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
70.7 - 76.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
70.7 - 71.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
70.9 - 71.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
71.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
71.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
71.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
72.7 - 75.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 |
73.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |